On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 05:03:07PM -0400, David Prévot wrote: > Why do you believe repacking upstream tarball should be the default > behavior (especially when, as already pointed before, “You *should* > upload packages with a pristine source tarball if possible”)?
I don't suppose I'll have much support for this, but in short: at present, upstream tarball repacking is a relatively uncommon thing, which means DDs have to dust the cobwebs off their mental manual (or the actual manual) every time they either have to repack an upstream source or interact with a repacked source. This is one of many things which contribute to making Debian packaging complex and tricky for newcomers. If we repacked every tarball as a matter of course, then our procedures are simpler: we've reduced the branching factor by one. If we repacked by default then some of the things we'd like to do with repacking, but put off because it's not worth repacking for them alone, such as getting rid of some of the autoconf/automake cruft (which is ignored/overwritten by use of dh-autoreconf etc.) might be more widespread. -- Jonathan Dowalnd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140920213516.GA5577@debian
